February 18, 2003

In this journal I will indirectly address the leadership performance indicator of planning. I had put off planning for this PL time for awhile. I purposely made this one vague to give me plenty of room to plan in. And then when we found out that I was the only one to send something in and we were supposed to all do the same thing, I was hoping that Joe would put together the competition thing that he wanted to do instead of my discussion. Of course that didn't happen. So here I am with my vague and broad topic of post-modern military and war and a class to teach on Wednesday. I should wear my work clothes more often; I've found I get more done when I do. It's psychological, if I'm in my pajamas (gym-a) I'm less inclined to go do work than if I'm in my work clothes (which is not as for class or BDUs mind you)
I went and talked to Jason about my topic and ended up sitting there till taps. I consider it a good conversation for a couple reasons. The first is because he's educated. I don't like to be asked questions or forced to express an opinion because I don't feel I'm educated enough to. I have feelings, but its better to not base discussions on them. So I got to sit there and ask questions that were answered intelligently, and I didn't get yelled at for my feelings or questions or doubts.

The moral of this event is that work can be enjoyable and I need to overcome my laziness.